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Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

Thomas Jefferson
4th Of July, Equality, Rights

Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!

Thomas Jefferson
Government, People, Southern

Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality

Thomas Jefferson
Equality, Men, Quality

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson
Business, Book, Reading

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson
Strength, Wisdom, Veterans Day
Letter to William Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787

No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.

Thomas Jefferson
Money, Generations, Debt

Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the safest depository of the ultimate powers of government.

Thomas Jefferson
Government, People, Honest

When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, Rights, Hands
Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, War, Gun
Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.89, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Thomas Jefferson
Friendship, Sad, Philosophy
Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803”, p.130, Cosimo, Inc.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson
Trust, Time, Democracies Have
Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.235, Cambridge University Press

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.

Thomas Jefferson
Government, Would Be, Submission

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson
Defense, Tyranny, Wells

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

Thomas Jefferson
4th Of July, Heart, Godly

The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.

Thomas Jefferson
Men, Thinking, Down And

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

Thomas Jefferson
Moments, Reloading, Glorious

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

Thomas Jefferson
Gun, Government, Southern

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson
Inspirational, Motivational, Success
Thomas Jefferson (2013). “The Jefferson Bible [annotated]: Original Old English Version and Modern Updates to The Jefferson Bible”, p.139, BookBaby

Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.

Thomas Jefferson
Oppression, Rebellion, Obedience

No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.

Thomas Jefferson
Government, Criticism, Intention

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.

Thomas Jefferson
Real, Lying, Facts
Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.92

The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty.

Thomas Jefferson
4th Of July, Liberty, Cornerstones

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Thomas Jefferson
Wisdom, Men, Ideas

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

Thomas Jefferson
Life, Thinking, Government
Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.461, Penguin

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Thomas Jefferson
Life, Time, Godly
Thomas Jefferson (1774). “A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)”, p.31, Academic Resources Corp